GEORGIA DENNISON
Material Action Amidst an arctic glow Reindeer spectrum the ultraviolet lichen, draw a meal. Humans are blind to this light. But they did perfect neon. Who hasn't been fed by the halo of a parabolic marquee. When the island married the land syntax canoed towards the edge of the earth and clicked on another video. If you want out of this galaxy you’re going to have to know more Octopuses, study architecture. Or you could stay put, make a living— not a life—but a continuous, nonfinite clause— tense in the gut—ever present participate. — This is not an account. But my mother insists the papayas behind her new, Port St. Lucie home are organic. Soil test, cloud sample, cumulonimbus exaggerations in with the extract—the seeds good for healing wounds. This is not an account but you should know I kept salamanders to die in a moss filled shoe box underneath my bed like a devil’s habitat, habitually tended the orangestriped, doe-eyed, twig-limbed until they went rigor mortis with my insistence. This is not an account but when I learn of the Irwin County Detention Center in rural South Georgia, when I
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